[pure-silver] Re: Wife brings home a garage sale camera
- From: titrisol <titrisol@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:56:08 -0700 (PDT)
I believe this is a rangefinder camera, and the lenses are
"auxiliary" (i.e. they screw on the front of the les just like a
filter)
Google for a e-copy of the manual, most probably there wil be
one in the butkus site or in the yashica-guy site.
The battery is just for the lightmeter? or for the shutter as
well?
--- Mark Blackwell <markb1958@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well its rare the wife is picking up camera gear, but for a
> grand total of
> 15 bucks she bought a Yashica MG-1. It came with 2 extra
> lenses, what they
> call a wide angle and a telephoto.
>
> Several issues though. First is that I can not seem to find
> any kind of
> release to get the lens off. From the other lenses, it
> appears to have a
> screw mount lens, but if it just a screw mount it appears to
> be stuck on
> pretty tight. Ideas on getting it off.
>
> Second is the issue of a battery. The battery in the case is
> a panasonic
> mercury battery HM-4N of 5.6 volts. Trouble is I don't think
> mercury
> batteries are available anymore. Any ideas on where something
> comparable
> might work.
>
> The camera had no manual with it and I have not found a
> shutter speed
> adjustment. I see two lights with slow and over on it and a
> lever right
> next to it with something that looks like it might be a flash
> symbol and
> auto. Is this the shutter speed adjustment and if so how do
> you tell what
> it is. Or do you do like those of yesteryear and just guess.
> Makes you
> appreciate the speed of the modern SLR.
>
> This kind of stuff is intriguing to me. I ususally end up
> spending way more
> than I should. Yet for 15 bucks I also got a slide projector
> that seems to
> work and a Sunpack 120 I haven't checked yet.
>
>
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